Apr9

Marathon Fundraising – American Brain Tumor Association

Posted by: Brian Chan | Filed in: personal | Tags: | 12:51 pm, April 9th, 2012 No Comments »

My friend Johnny is running for the SF Full-Marathon this summer for a good cause. Please visit his fundraising page for more details! Go Johnny!



Mar17

How to disconnect comcast TV

Posted by: Brian Chan | Filed in: personal | Tags: | 03:19 pm, March 17th, 2012 No Comments »

I got a bundle deal a few months ago with both TV and internet. After a while the discount expired, as I found out from my monthly statement. Since I really don’t have time to watch TV, I decided to cancel just the TV service. It took me a while to find out how to disconnect the TV service. Here is how.

  1. Call 1-800-266-2278.
  2. If you don’t have a residential phone number, just wait until they ask for your other phone numbers. For me, they have my cell phone number on file.
  3. Then just a lot more options with the voice machine to get to an actual person who can assist you to downgrade your service.

For all other issues, you can try out the online chat service at: https://www.comcastsupport.com/chatentry/



Mar3

Kiwi Gardner

Posted by: Brian Chan | Filed in: personal | Tags: | 10:44 am, March 3rd, 2012 No Comments »

Reminds me of my golden days, hahaha… ;)



Sep7

水調歌頭 – 蘇軾

Posted by: Brian Chan | Filed in: personal | Tags: | 10:42 pm, September 7th, 2011 No Comments »

明月幾時有,把酒問青天。

不知天上宮闕,今夕是何年。

我欲乘風歸去,又恐瓊樓玉宇,高處不勝寒。

起舞弄清影,何似在人間。

轉朱閣,低綺戶,照無眠。

不應有恨,何事長向別時圓。

人有悲歡離合,月有陰晴圓缺,此事古難全。

但願人長久,千里共嬋娟。



Apr25

System Verilog

Posted by: Brian Chan | Filed in: personal | Tags: | 04:32 pm, April 25th, 2011 No Comments »

There is an opening at my work related to system verilog.

System verilog may not be taught in school so don’t be shy if you don’t have any experience with it. The overall hardware design conceptual understanding is probably more important than anything.

The main part of this job has something to do with dynamically switching on/off circuits to conserve power. This is a really good opportunity to build something from ground up with cutting edge technology. If you know of anyone interested please let me know.

The location is at Santa Clara, CA.



Mar13

Chat with Alice

Posted by: Brian Chan | Filed in: personal | Tags: | 08:51 pm, March 13th, 2011 No Comments »

I wrote a little chat program called “Chat with Alice”. If you have some free time please try it out at http://chat-with-alice.appspot.com/. Give me some comments if you like.



Oct13

badminton

Posted by: Brian Chan | Filed in: personal | Tags: | 04:44 pm, October 13th, 2010 1 Comment »

Sometimes I don’t quite know why I am keeping this blog alive. There isn’t much hits, nor any financial incentives. I suspect I am probably the most frequent visitor anyway. But oh well… I guess it’s like watering your own backyard, it’s not quite for any kinds of benefits except the joy of watering it. So whatever, I will keep writing…

I usually post my personal updates on facebook, but usually you have to keep it short on facebook, otherwise… I guess it will look weird to have it too long, though there isn’t any guideline on the message length… I guess it’s a general social protocol or etiquette. Let’s see how it goes on this blog.

Lately I have been playing badminton a lot. Well, it isn’t that much, like at most two times a week, but to my body that’s quite some exercise. ;) I start liking it and just feel like I have been missing out all along. The game is so simple and at first I was like how hard was that dude. After playing for like 3 months, oh man, it makes you run! If you play with someone who knows the game, you will find yourself doing a lot of running back and forth, left and right, and sometimes jumping and dodging!

Aside from sweating, I also think about strategy. My strategy is simple: doing the least to win the point. That’s coz I am lazy! I think about the strength and weakness of my opponents, as well as my team, then go from there. For some reason I am thinking about the Arts of War now, haha. Yea, and the crazy thing is in the middle of the game, your opponents may adapt to your strategy and all of a sudden nothing works well anymore…

It’s like playing street fighter 4 in real life, only I feel my aching body…

Eating out afterward is definitely what I look forward to every time. Good incentive for the work out! Join me if you wanna exercise!